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The Deus Shined Today

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beepsilver

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4Khz
Disc 6
Sens 85
React 2 / Silencer 0
IV 0
AR 5
GB Tracking
Notch 6-35

A buddy and I hunted some permission property without luck for a few hours then went to a park I haven't hunted in almost two years because of continuous skunkings. The park is loaded with trash, nails and bottlecaps. My first hole had the barber in it and it's in pretty good shape! The V nickel came up about 30 minutes later :)
I'd say the Deus is performing well under duress!
 
Sweet coins! Keep nailing that park and you're sure to pull more goodies! Reac = 3 will separate a little better but this will cost you 1-1.5" of max depth. How deep were these coins?
 
Definitely some great finds, particularly for a spot that's only skunked you in the past. Both of those coins are in pretty outstanding condition, too. That's amazing. Where are you (just basic location -- not trying to get you to divulge where the honey-hole is)? CZ already asked, but I'd love to know approx. how deep as well.
Take care,
Rich
 
Thanks everyone--I live near Omaha and hunt in about a 75 mile radius...these coins were found in western Iowa. I've written about the parks I go to...namely a park with a tremendous amount of bottlecaps. Well this park is different; it has bottlecaps, but not as many as the other park I hunt...today's hunt was at a park loaded with nails. It's just my preference, but I'd rather deal with nails than bottlecaps any day.

The dime was at about 8 inches and gave a pretty weak signal even with audio response set at 5 but repeatable from two angles...pretty choppy from the other angles because there were targets on either side of the dime that I swept over but didn't dig. I heard the soft high tone in between them and focused my swings on it...I had just arrived at the park and knew what to expect so I was determined to go slow and listen close to separate deep signals...my buddy says I'm performing surgery :). That's easy to do early on, but does get old pretty quick..."old" in that the ears get tired of listening. Anyway, I'm glad I was in React 2 because I may have not heard the signal with React 3...I could be wrong of course, but I have pretty good hearing and although the tone wasn't really a whisper per se, it was pretty weak. I really didn't focus on the TDI (focused on the lack of TDI actually and the little blip on the horshoe)...but I did see a 97 pop up at least twice...something to think about when notching....I do notch the lower end of the spectrum, but I'm too afraid to miss silver if I notch any high tones at the end of the spectrum. I may have written about this before, but with my White's machines, if you notch out the last two high numbers on the non-ferrous spectrum you will not hear big silver halves or dollars...I learned this the hard way. Whether or not it's true for the Deus, I don't know, but I'd rather put up with some high tone iron than notch that end out.

The V nickel (second one this week) on the other hand was a shallow 5 inches (pretty shallow for this park anyway) and was very clear but a little bouncy in TDIs...I expect since this park is loaded with trash, bouncing TDIs are the norm. As with other parks I've hunted around here, the low conductors are still more plentiful than the silvers...which I'd guess is probably true in many places. I'll have to spend a day just hunting low conductors at this park--more than likely I'd probably bring up quite a few missed or skipped nickels and maybe gold if I'm lucky. The nickel was a surprise coming in at high 50s and low 60s...I was thinking IHP, but was pleased to see the V nickel (I was secretly hoping for my first shield nickel, but today was not the day).

I'll continue to put the Deus through the paces and hopefully dial myself in to this machine some more and maybe pull a few more goodies from this park.
 
Beep,
This information is preliminary. I will continue to test and update findings if they contradict what I am about to state.

I find that in heavy iron, low reactivity settings still lights up the high conductors like copper and silver. I have done the following test in those areas.
I've gone over the same area in reactivity-1,2,and 3. At no time did I find any objects in reactivity-3 that I missed in 1 or 2. On the contrary, I may have passed up a couple targets in reactivity-3 because the signal was almost nonexistent (depth).
Still, in heavy iron I lean toward reactivity-2 for most of my hunting. Not to say it wouldn't be much more pleasant working in reactivity-3, I have just never found an instance where 3 gave me a clearer signal than 2 or 1 in heavily peppered areas.
The pain is in all the falsing on iron that one must continually double check. The only other alternative in reactivity-1 or 2 is to go at a snails pace and that's just something I cannot do for an extended period of time.

Now if looking for low conductors (like gold) near iron, I would use the higher reactivity in an iron infested area because the iron would certainly over shadow the signal from a nearby low conductor.

BTW, nice job in a trashy park.
 
Ism said:
Beep,
This information is preliminary. I will continue to test and update findings if they contradict what I am about to state. This is great info Ism, thanks!

I find that in heavy iron, low reactivity settings still lights up the high conductors like copper and silver. I think I'm starting to notice this too--for anything in the 6 inch range and beyond, I like the tones in R2 over R3. I have done the following test in those areas.
I've gone over the same area in reactivity-1,2,and 3. At no time did I find any objects in reactivity-3 that I missed in 1 or 2. On the contrary, I may have passed up a couple targets in reactivity-3 because the signal was almost nonexistent (depth). I suspect in this park, I would miss deeper/smaller targets in R3. I've heard a half dime came out of this park years ago, so I wouldn't want to miss one of those in R3 if they're still buried deep there...I've never found one and there aren't many in my hunting radius.
Still, in heavy iron I lean toward reactivity-2 for most of my hunting. Not to say it wouldn't be much more pleasant working in reactivity-3, I have just never found an instance where 3 gave me a clearer signal than 2 or 1 in heavily peppered areas.
The pain is in all the falsing on iron that one must continually double check. The only other alternative in reactivity-1 or 2 is to go at a snails pace and that's just something I cannot do for an extended period of time. That's what I was running into yesterday...going very slow picking out individual signals. This park has been hunted pretty thoroughly, but if I can manage to not go crazy dissecting these signals, I can probably pull a few more keepers out. I only hunted a very small area because I was going so slow...so there's plenty of real estate left to make me go batty:)

Now if looking for low conductors (like gold) near iron, I would use the higher reactivity in an iron infested area because the iron would certainly over shadow the signal from a nearby low conductor. I hadn't considered this, thanks!

BTW, nice job in a trashy park.
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asdadad said:
you may get a slightly more solid hit on 8 or 12kHz for coins
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I'm going back today...if I get any good signals, I'll switch freqs to test this out; thanks for the tip!
 
I have a small 12.5mm silver at 7" in my testbed at home and my 12khz gets it with a little more punch to audio - it is subtle but I convinced myself.

4kHz will get decent chunks at depth a little better I guess.

I was waiting for the deus to catch on in the us, Seems it is gathering momentum now.

useful bit of kit - I bought a 9" and WS4 cans on V2 and use homebrew stick / chargers
 
asdadad said:
I have a small 12.5mm silver at 7" in my testbed at home and my 12khz gets it with a little more punch to audio - it is subtle but I convinced myself.

4kHz will get decent chunks at depth a little better I guess.

I was waiting for the deus to catch on in the us, Seems it is gathering momentum now.

useful bit of kit - I bought a 9" and WS4 cans on V2 and use homebrew stick / chargers
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